AusBonsai

Looks like a good longer project especially if you cut down low ,you will be rewarded .No mate don't fish with any teachers ......yet ,will be looking forward to the end of this wind and rain so I can head out and put some in the freezer
Cheers
Tony

hey mate just going over these pics again, i reckon going by the riits and looking at this with the taper that image 0893 is a possible front, it also has a small branchlet there that could go up as a new leader, be very careful cutting back on an angle as it can damamge the new leader, i have knocked a few selected leaders before.

i like this tree a lot regan, it will be a ripper


jamie

Regan,
Very nice tree.
Keep us posted.
Jerry

Cheers Regan, at that price its good value.

Looking forward to seeing what you do.

You really don't want to know

Did you give it the chop

Regan wrote:You really don't want to know

Cmon mate

it will be fine either way. lets see champ !!

i'll post some pics soon fellas

something did go snap though

this sounds like a "OH bugger" pup moment mate

im trying to figure out how something goes snap when you were trunk chopping though???

It did involve a pup, just a different kind

pics and a full story coming in a couple of minutes

ok it has had the chop

heres the bit that came off here is the tree just after the chop the oh bugger moment came just after that photo, i was just having a look at the branches and what i was going to do with it. I stepped back and stood on my puppy, the big branch that I was thinking of using for the leader was pretty much snapped right off.

A mass of grafting tape and wire and it is attached again, hopefully all will be well, just that there will allways be a weak spot there now

Cheers Regan

that will be fine mate since you have done the chop now you will have a mass of new shoots to choose from. personally i would of gone to a lower branch but all good

hows the pup ???


jamie

Still not sure about going lower on this one mate, I did have a vision of a taller tree, trying to stay away from a sumo with this one.

not too worried about the snap now but at the time I was not happy, lucky its a fig, and only in training, imagine if it was a fully developed pine or something

pup is fine, just a bit shocked at what happened to her

Cheers Regan

cool bout the style mate it will make a fine taller tree with nice taper too.

so the heavy branch is the one you snapped? and you have now wired it up yes?


jamie

Looks like a healthy tree from the pics mate so fingers crossed that the branch hangs on. Even if it dosnt it will just power on now.

Good luck with it